were copying
- past progressive of copy.
Example Sentences
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After NFT owners began getting ridiculed for coining “right-clicker” as an insult for people who were copying their images, they said that the term was really just meant as a joke as well.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2021
By the spring of 2018, homeowners were copying D.C. government agencies on emails to the developer asking that they take a closer look at ongoing structural issues.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2021
He also said the lawyers filed a "copy and paste" complaint lifting allegations from other Trumpworld lawsuits and should have realized "the lawsuits from which they were copying had failed."
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2021
By the time he left Vail in 2006, competitors were copying his strategy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2021
She was wearing dark sunglasses, almost as if she were copying Nicole.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
